More Legal Blogging

This week's two new Iowa Supreme Court opinions are up. The first deals with "whether there is statutory or common-law authority supporting a county’s claim for reimbursement for payments made on behalf of one of its residents for community-based mental health services under Iowa Code chapter 225C (2001), and whether the five-year statute of limitations precludes the county from recovering any payments made on behalf of one of its residents for inpatient mental health services at a state hospital under Iowa Code chapter 230." The short answer: no. The second involves suspending an attorney's license for drug use. The committee seemed particularly concerned that the attorney's acting as counsel on a drug charge may have been a conflict of interest, as "reports by investigating officers revealed that it was Sloan’s personal involvement in Myers’ drug activities that led to Sloan’s own problems with the law."